Speaking to Gary Lineker on The Rest Is Football podcast, Carlo Ancelotti has talked about how he loved his time managing Everton in the Premier League at Goodison Park.
“I had a good feeling at Everton. I was really happy at Everton. Also, if we had different team difficulties, but I think the start of that season was really good for Everton,” said the former Blues boss.
“And I was happy at Everton, honestly. Good atmosphere, good training ground, good people. But I couldn’t say no to Real Madrid.”
Perhaps the greatest living manager, Ancelotti's sojourn with Everton was all too brief, but he was the last manager to propel an Everton side to the top of the Premier League on the back of five straight wins at the beginning of the 2020-21 season.
Ancelotti also brought the best out of Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who went on to score an incredible 21 goals in all competitions that season.
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2 Posted 12/11/2025 at 13:18:38
I think most people would have found happiness in such an arrangement.
3 Posted 12/11/2025 at 15:10:50
What he did different, and what I give him massive credit for in that blighted Covid season, was he had the name of Everton sitting high and proud at the top of the Premier League.
Who else before or since has achieved that -- even for just 1 week???
4 Posted 12/11/2025 at 15:32:40
Go on print this just to prove someone is there!
5 Posted 12/11/2025 at 15:43:58
27 Posted 12/11/2025 at 19:49:56
Unfortunately Mr Ancelotti will be remembered by me as the manager who had the biggest opportunity to claim some sort of European place, in a time when the Sky 6 were struggling due to fixture congestion, only to deliver a really underwhelming 10th place outcome.
When you think we finished in between two Championship squads led by Bielsa and Dean Smith and directly below a team whose Player of the Season was the mercurial Jack Harrison and main beneficiary was the legendary Patrick Bamford. Moreover our own David Moyes led his team into the Top 6 with an inferior squad.
The club took a £17M hit on Allan after paying him over £10M in wages as we pandered to a man who we believed could deliver. After claiming he was no magician, he produced one of the sharpest vanishing acts without a trace or a care in the world.
He had as much love for Everton as I speak for Dave Dann.
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1 Posted 12/11/2025 at 10:24:31